Kidnapping

Chicago police were questioning a person of interest in an attempted kidnapping in the city’s West Loop over the weekend.

Video captured the harrowing final moments of a woman’s attempted kidnapping in the West Loop, which was thwarted by two Good Samaritans who stopped to aid as she screamed for help.

Video captured the harrowing final moments of a woman’s attempted kidnapping in the West Loop, which was thwarted by two Good Samaritans who stopped to aid as she screamed for help.

A woman who managed to get away from a man who attempted to kidnap her early Sunday morning in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood said she has two Good Samaritans to thank for saving her life. Sandra Torres reports.

A woman who managed to get away from a man who attempted to kidnap her early Sunday morning in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood said she has two Good Samaritans to thank for saving her life.

A woman managed to get away from a man who attempted to kidnap her early Sunday morning in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, according to authorities. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

A woman managed to get away from a man who attempted to kidnap her early Sunday morning in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, according to authorities. At approximately 8:45 a.m., the woman was walking on the sidewalk in the 200 block of South Sangamon when an unknown offender approached her and grabbed both of her arms, Chicago police said in a…

Police have released a video of a man trying to kidnap a 5-year-old girl Thursday morning in Belmont Cragin on the Northwest Side.

Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis provided details on Tuesday on the grim discovery of missing teacher Eliza Fletcher’s body the night before and the arrest of a suspect in her murder.

Cleotha Abston, 38, “has been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence,” the Memphis Police Department statement said Sunday. 

News agencies report that an 83-year-old missionary nun from Louisiana has been released nearly five months after she was kidnapped from her bed in the west African country of Burkina Faso.

The woman who was seen screaming, bloodied, for help was found safe — along with the truck and driver. Somehow, the situation only got more confusing. And now we get this reveal.

Police on Tuesday recovered a 3-month-old baby who had been kidnapped a day earlier from his grandmother’s San Jose home.

UPDATE, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday: Police on Tuesday recovered a 3-month-old baby who had been kidnapped a day earlier from his grandmother’s San Jose home, NBC Bay Area has learned.

The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children and holding them and their driver for $5 million ransom in 1976 was recommended for parole with the support of two of the victims.

A Northern California woman whose disappearance and mysterious reappearance set off a frantic three-week search more than five years ago has been arrested.

A New York girl who was reported missing from her Tompkins County home in July 2019, when she was 4 years old, has been located safely, police in Ulster County’s Saugerties department said Tuesday.

Suspect Joseph Beecher, 48, has been charged with kidnapping in federal court after allegedly mtaking a woman captive at gunpoint Wednesday and taking her across state lines.

Police smashed their way into a suburban house and rescued a 4-year-old girl whose disappearance from her family’s camping tent more than two weeks ago both horrified and captivated Australians.

Australian police smashed their way into a house Wednesday and rescued a four-year-old girl, who disappeared from her family’s camping tent more than two weeks ago.